# 1844 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
* 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
* 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.
* 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.
* 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
* 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.
* date unknown
** A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
** Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
* David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

### Music

* Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
* Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

### Visual arts

* English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

## Sport

* Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.

## Births

* 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
* 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
* 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
* June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
* 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
* 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
* 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

## Deaths

* 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
* 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
* 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68
* 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83